Now the war is over: Negotiating the BBC's wartime legacy in post-war Britain

Siân Nicholas

Now the war is over: Negotiating the BBC's wartime legacy in post-war Britain

Siân Nicholas

Department of History & Welsh History

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Abstract

This chapter explores the history of British broadcasting In the short transitional period between the end of WW2 and the shift to full post-war peace-time broadcasting. In particular it seeks to uncover why, contrary to popular myth, so many broadcasters, administrators and commentators regarded the BBC's wartime record not as the Corporations' own 'finest hour', but an embarrassing discontinuity with, even a regression from, the BBC's core public service aims.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Broadcasting in the UK and US in the 1950s
Subtitle of host publication	Historical perspectives
Editors	Siân Nicholas, Tom O'Malley, Jamie Medhurst
Place of Publication	Newcastle
Publisher	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages	9-28
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Print)	9781443888998, 1-4438-8899-0
Publication status	Published - 06 May 2016

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uk
usa
1950s

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